Harry Potter and the Great Addiction

As the title of this blog states: The Harry Potter books are worse than a crack addiction...and I don't mean that in a bad way either. I love the series and applaud the author [J.K. Rowling] for reigniting everyone's need to pick up a book and to read.

After spending this past weekend, reading the 700+ page novel that is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now I will not ruin the ending for those who have not gotten to the end of the book (i.e., my sister who last time I checked was around chapter 17). Great Ending though! I just wanted to note that how over the weekend everyone from kids to an elderly man were waiting in line to get their copy of the coveted seventh book and final book in the coveted Harry Potter series.

Almost like a crack addiction, people needed to get their fix about how the story of the Boy Wizard would end. And fortunately I needed to get that fix too. I could say it was a close friend/ co-worker at the University of Florida Bookstore who got me into reading the book. I was probably with the few back then who thought a book about a boy wizard was stupid and childish. But after reading Book Three at the time, I was really hooked and thought the story was simple yet complex at the sametime.

The day before the book came out, my father and I had a conversation about the hype surrounding the book. He thought it was stupid (what compels someone to stand in line for a book?) He also thought a book about magic and wizards was stupid. My only counterargument was, "Hey it making kids and adults alike read. Haven't you notice dad that people nowadays just don't sit down and just read a book?" Alas, he agreed, still holding on to the thought that the media coverage about a kids book was getting too much hype. That's true, Lemony Snickets didn't get this much fanfare.

Now that the book is done and sits on my bookshelf as an amazing feat of my AWESOMENESS. I wonder what else is out there that I can conquer....hmmmm, sounds like that would be something worth writing.


Until Next Time.